Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1914-04-02
- Day of Death2000-08-05 (86 years)
- Place of BirthMarylebone, London, England, UK
- Also Known AsAlec Guinness de CuffeSir Alec GuinnessСэр Алек Гиннессالک گینس
Alec Guinness
Biography
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star...Read More
Acting Career
- 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
As: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
- 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
- 1996
Eskimo Day
As: James
- 1995
Mute Witness
As: The Reaper
- 1993
A Foreign Field
As: Amos
- 1992
Tales from Hollywood
As: Heinrich Mann
- 1991
Kafka
As: The Chief Clerk
- 1991
Performance
As: Heinrich Mann
1989Screen One
As: Amos
1988A Handful of Dust
As: Mr. Todd
1987Little Dorrit
As: William Dorrit
1985Monsignor Quixote
As: Father Quixote
1984A Passage to India
As: Professor Godbole
1984Edwin
As: Sir Fennimore Truscott
- 1983
Return of the Jedi
As: Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983Lovesick
As: Sigmund Freud
1982Smiley's People
As: George Smiley
1980Little Lord Fauntleroy
As: Earl of Dorincourt
1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
As: Obi Wan Kenobi
1980Raise the Titanic
As: John Bigalow
- 1980
The Empire Strikes Back
As: Obi-Wan Kenobi
1979Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
As: George Smiley
- 1977
Star Wars
As: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1976Murder by Death
As: Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976Caesar and Cleopatra
As: Caesar
1974The Gift of Friendship
As: Jocelyn Broome
1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days
As: Adolf Hitler
1972Brother Sun, Sister Moon
As: Papst Innozenz III.
1971Great Performances
As: Father Quixote
1970Scrooge
As: Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970Cromwell
As: King Charles I
1970Twelfth Night
As: Malvolio
1967The Comedians
As: Major H. O. Jones
1966The Quiller Memorandum
As: Pol
1966Hotel Paradiso
As: Benedict Boniface
1965Doctor Zhivago
As: Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
As: Wilhelm Frick
1964The Fall of the Roman Empire
As: Marcus Aurelius
1962Lawrence of Arabia
As: Prince Feisal
1962H.M.S. Defiant
As: Captain Crawford
1961A Majority of One
As: Koichi Asano
1960Tunes of Glory
As: Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960Our Man in Havana
As: Jim Wormold
1959The Scapegoat
As: John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1958The Horse's Mouth
As: Gulley Jimson
1957Barnacle Bill
As: Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957The Bridge on the River Kwai
As: Col. Nicholson
1956The Swan
As: Prince Albert
1955The Ladykillers
As: Professor Marcus
1955The Prisoner
As: The Cardinal
1955To Paris with Love
As: Sir Edgar Fraser
1954Father Brown
As: Father Brown
1953The Captain's Paradise
As: Captain Henry St. James
1953Malta Story
As: Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1952The Card
As: Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: Julius Caesar
1951The Man in the White Suit
As: Sidney Stratton
1951The Lavender Hill Mob
As: Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1950The Mudlark
As: Benjamin Disraeli
1950Last Holiday
As: George Bird
1949A Run for Your Money
As: Whimple
1949Kind Hearts and Coronets
As: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1948Oliver Twist
As: Fagin
1946Great Expectations
As: Herbert Pocket
1934Evensong
As: W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)